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Geordie GrayEntertainment reporter

Geordie Gray is a digital producer and entertainment reporter based in Sydney. She writes about film, television, music and pop culture. Previously, she was News Editor at The Brag Media and wrote features for Rolling Stone.

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InterviewTelevision

Kate Box: ‘I love being older’

The Australian actor plays a buttoned-up cop in a lawless town, in the new Amazon Prime series Deadloch.

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ArtsArts

(L to R) Ballet dancers Isobelle Dashwood and Lilla Harvey at Carriageworks in Sydney on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Both dancers were announced as winners in the 2023 Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards Picture: Nikki Short

Prize shock and awe put dancers’ souls on fire

‘The grind and the work that I have put in every single day for the last 15 years of my life is really being seen,’ says 21-year-old dancer.

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WatchlistReview

BBC One's new drama, Blue Lights. Picture: Supplied

Nervy drama a worthy follow up to Happy Valley

BBC One’s latest police procedural is a taut, top-notch drama that will cauterise those wounds left by that damp squib final season of Line of Duty.

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‘rest, recover, recalibrate’Arts

LORNE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 31: A patron crowd surfs during The Falls Festival on December 31, 2007 in Lorne, Australia. (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Falls Festival scrapped for 2023

After a difficult few years, the long-running New Year’s festival will take a year off to ‘re-imagine how Falls will look in the future’.

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MUSICMusic

Voyager at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. Picture: Chloe Hashemi / EBU

Voyager shoots for the stars in grand final of Eurovision

The Perth synth-metal band has cinched a spot in the grand final, set to take place on Sunday (AEST).

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new appointmentArts

Fergus Linehan and Cass O’Connor at Carriageworks. Photo by Nic Walker.

Festival boss named CEO of Carriageworks

Fergus Linehan will head up one of Australia’s leading arts and cultural institutions.

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watchlistReview

Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great, in The Great (Stan) supplied by publicist

‘Marriage is a cage, except it’s also a deathmatch’

The Great — a scabrously funny, ‘occasionally true’ period drama — returns…and it makes Bridgerton look positively prudish.

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SFF 2023Film

New Boy in town, and a feast of other films

Director Warwick Thornton’s movie The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett, will open the 2023 Sydney Film Festival.

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ARTSArts

Portrait of Australian icon Barry Humphries. He has just announced that he will appear in a personal show aware from his many faces. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Humphries’ state funeral to be held in Sydney

The family of the comedian, born and raised in Melbourne, has declined an offer for a Victorian state funeral from Daniel Andrews.

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PRODUCTIONArts

11/6/19: Recording engineer and producer Anna Laverty at Forbes street studio in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

‘Just hire women. Look for them and hire them’

Women and non-binary people were shockingly under-represented across the top 50 streamed songs of last year. Why are they struggling to be taken seriously in music?

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